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Reflections on a river

by David Swain | 4 Feb, 2012

Therese Douglas and Ian Hughes, New South Wales Regional Meeting The Giving River. Maybe you know the Silverstein fable about the giving tree? The one where the tree tries to be all things to the boy/man/cranky old fart to the point of becoming a dead stump? Well I...

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